17 Quotes By Malcolm Muggeridge


One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
Malcolm Muggeridge on age

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
Malcolm Muggeridge on art

There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.
Malcolm Muggeridge on failure

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge on god

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
Malcolm Muggeridge on god

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
Malcolm Muggeridge on great

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
Malcolm Muggeridge on happiness

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
Malcolm Muggeridge on happiness

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
Malcolm Muggeridge on history

Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.
Malcolm Muggeridge on humor

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Malcolm Muggeridge on religion

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
Malcolm Muggeridge on religion

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Malcolm Muggeridge on society

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
Malcolm Muggeridge on strength

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
Malcolm Muggeridge on travel

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge on truth

There’s nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
Malcolm Muggeridge on agreement